Comte handled sales on Hosoda’s previous film The Boy and The Beast when he was deputy head of sales at Gaumont.
Australian anime distributor Madman Entertainment began streaming the teaser video for Mamoru Hosoda’s Mirai no Mirai film with English subtitles on Thursday.
Hiroyuki Aoyama – the animation director on earlier Hosoda films The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, and The Boy and The Beast – and Ayako Hata – a key animator on the same films, are returning for this new film as animation directors.
Yohei Takamatsu and Takashi Omori, who Hosoda had previously worked with on The Boy and The Beast, are also returning as art directors for the film.